Ying Yan smiled and gave her a quick kiss.
In reality, when a person reaches this stage in life, has a loved one, is not short of money, and has no interest in power, they basically don't have any major goals in life, and their days begin to become mundane.
However, he liked his wife's tendency to mess around, and he became interested in it for a while.
Xia Hua is just starting out, and the couple is able to get involved, witness this era, and also take the opportunity to make a little money, which seems quite satisfying.
He said with a smile, "Now that the rules in many places have been relaxed, I think we can take this opportunity to form a team to collect debts."
“Not only do we own a lot of properties, but also nearly a hundred residential and commercial properties in Kyoto alone that need to be sorted out, not to mention properties in other provinces and cities. There are also many people in the same boat as us, holding property certificates but living in cramped and dark tenement buildings, or even dilapidated buildings. Let alone kicking out the people who are staying in their houses, they can't even collect rent.”
"It is said that even an upright official finds it difficult to settle family disputes. The comrades in the bureau are busy with organizational affairs, and all they can do is arrest people and discipline them for a few days. But after they come back, their whole family continues to come to their door to make trouble and threaten to kill themselves. It can be said that this is only treating the symptoms, not the root cause. Even if they move into the house, they still can't have peace and quiet."
Ke Meiyu blinked. In later generations, there were many debt collection companies with many ingenious methods to subdue deadbeats, but the commissions were definitely high!
This is indeed a way to make a fortune.
Ying Yan stroked his somewhat dazed wife and continued, "You know, even though I'm a grown man, I'm very vengeful and fiercely protective of my own. If I don't want to work with someone, fine. Before I left Kyoto, I did have a wide circle of friends, including not only the children of high-ranking officials but also a group of ordinary friends."
“When I was a child, shortly after my mother passed away, Ying Xuhui married this woman. She was a sweet-faced but bitter-hearted person, two different people in public and private. She was just taking advantage of my young age and my spoiled nature as a child of the compound.”
"She could just whisper something in my ear and Ying Xuhui would label me a wicked child, and in the dead of winter, he would chase me out the door in the thin clothes to reflect on my actions. I was young then, but I had a bad temper, and I left in a huff."
"It was snowing at the time. I hadn't eaten for two meals and had a fever. I fainted before I could even get to my grandfather's house."
“A group of children dragged me home. They said they were from an orphanage, but it was just a matter of having a registered address. In reality, no one cared about them. They usually picked up trash and did errands for others in exchange for food.”
“In the city, unlike in the countryside, you can find some food in the mountains. But here, it’s ten times harder to survive. They were all starving, their heads swollen, and they were truly skin and bones. At that time, I was very sick and delirious. It was thanks to their hard work to buy medicine, to collect herbs in the suburbs, and to constantly wipe my body that I managed to survive.”
"In the doctor's words, it's called having no will to live. Seeing how harsh their conditions are, yet how tenaciously they still live, I've been living with my maternal grandfather for a long time. I want to live a fulfilling life and not waste this one life. There are still many good people in this world. Some couples have a good relationship, but they just don't have children, so I found a place for these children."
"They finally had families, so they studied hard and helped their parents with chores. When I was in the army, I also arranged jobs for them. They weren't necessarily easy jobs, but as long as they were willing to work hard, they could support themselves."
"Now that the organization is starting to loosen its grip, I want to gather them together and have them work as debt collectors for a while to supplement their income. I also want to take the opportunity to observe how they've changed over the years. Those who are of good character and have a clear head will stay. The rest will be sold off in one go."
"We have a lot of academic work to do, so we don't necessarily have to keep an eye on business all the time."
Ke Meiyu nodded repeatedly, "The friends you make must be good."
"Are you praising me or mocking me?" Ying Yan nibbled at her cheek, only to be pushed aside in disgust.
Seeing her like this, the man became even more excited and kept nuzzling against her like a husky.
Ke Meiyu was ticklish, and she bit her lip while laughing so hard she could barely breathe, until finally someone put her in their mouth.
The two discussed things so late that they didn't wake up until almost eight o'clock in the morning, and only the young couple was left at home.
Ying Yan quickly washed up, put on his clothes, and ran off to get food for his wife.
Ke Meiyu continued to look at the property information she had compiled. It only contained the size and location of the houses, and no other information. She had no idea how to deal with the people who occupied the houses and refused to leave.
After dinner, Ying Yan took her to a residential area, which was about the Fourth Ring Road.
There are many large factories here, such as textile factories, shoe factories, breweries, starch factories, chemical plants, etc. It seems that the surrounding houses were demolished and rebuilt in the factory area. The residential compounds have also been expanded batch after batch, with tenement buildings and apartment buildings, which are very close together and narrow and cramped.
The people's mental state was not very good; they were sallow and emaciated from long-term malnutrition, and their clothes were patched.
She suddenly remembered when she was in college, a classmate said that they lived in a seaside city, where the buildings were dozens of stories high, and the houses were all only 50 or 60 square meters. Five families shared one elevator, and the classmate joked that in 20 or 30 years, this would be a slum.
There was no other way. At that time, the one-child policy had not yet been implemented. Every family had a bunch of children, and more than a dozen people were crammed into a tiny house. Food, clothing, and schooling all cost money. But in a family, only a few people actually received a salary.
Ke Meiyu couldn't help but feel fortunate. If she hadn't had such a rich life experience and had just been an ordinary working-class girl growing up here, she wouldn't know what kind of life she would be living.
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